The Rajneesh Foundation's spokesperson, Ma Anand Sheela, is featured and behaves provocatively on several talk shows and news programs. The town members complain that the Rajneeshees are obsessed with sex, and can be heard having orgasmic experiences all day and all night. After a bombing of a Rajneesh-owned hotel in Portland, Oregon in 1983, security increases dramatically at the ranch. Sheela begins buying up available properties in Antelope, a town of only 40 people, and the locals decide to disincorporate to prevent the Rajneeshees from taking political control. The group 1000 Friends of Oregon initiates a court case to have the buildings of Rajneeshpuram destroyed. The documentary film Ashram in Poona: Bhagwans Experiment sparks concerns with Antelope locals. The American press begins to affiliate Rajneeshpuram with the Jonestown Massacre and paints Bhagwan as an antichrist and threat to Christianity. Locals describe their experiences of sannyasins and their mistrust towards Bhagwan. With the help of architects, engineers, city planners and commune residents, Rajneeshees construct a town called Rajneeshpuram, with its own power station, plumbing, roads, shopping centre, houses, hall, airport and a large meditation hall. The commune decides to become self-governing which would allow them to issue their own building permits, have separate law enforcement and be completely independent. Ma Anand Sheela and several other Rajneesh sannyasins recount their experiences of moving to the ranch and the hostility from the residents of Antelope. The group immediately comes onto the radar of the FBI. The small community of locals living in Antelope is curious about their new neighbor, Osho, who comes into town in a Rolls-Royce, and his followers, which number in the thousands. Sheela, who met Osho when she was 16 years old, becomes the administrator, managing the group's millions of dollars.
They buy 80,000 acres in Antelope, Oregon (a very small town of about 50 people) and begin bringing in mobile homes and building materials to build their agricultural commune. A westerner shares with them the Constitution of the United States and the group decides the United States is the best place for them to practice their way of life. Westerners begin moving to India to join the movement so the group decides they want to build a commune but find political resistance in India.
Osho speaks about capitalism, spirituality and sexuality and his followers practice a dynamic form of meditation. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) is filling stadiums with 20–30k people.
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